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Personality and Power
Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
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The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history.
The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion, and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished.
Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw is a compelling, lucid, and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end?
In a contrasting group of profiles (Churchill, de Gaulle, Adenauer, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl), Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.
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Ian Kershaw's Personality and Power offers an insightful exploration of 12 seminal leaders who influenced 20th-century Europe. Reviewers praise Kershaw's expertise and ability to convey complex personalities concisely, noting the book as well-researched and thought-provoking. His work provides a nuanced analysis suggesting societies thrive when leaders play less dominant roles.
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ISBN: 9780241532416
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 29 September 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Allen Lane
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 714g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler 1889-1936- Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945- Nemesis, which received the Wolfson Literary Award for History and the Bruno Kreisky Prize in Austria for the Political Book of the Year, and was joint winner of the inaugural British Academy Book Prize. His other books include Making Friends with Hitler, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Fateful Choices; The End; and his histories of modern Europe, To Hell and Back and Roller-Coaster.
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